Chateau Grief 19

Grant: Oh here's a good one...Esmerelda Jones? Wait a second, you're that lunatic activist.

Esme: I put in for a transfer. I didn't like my previous guild.

Grant: What kind of committee idiot would approve your transfer? Now everyone will be asking for one.

Esme: Prime Minister Elect Diaboloniana Beelzebubba signed my request.

Thought(Kore): Why do I get this horrible feeling...

Telepathy(Kore): ...that I can read everyones mind?

Narration(Kore): It's all obvious if you think about it. The calluses on the inside of her thumbs. Not her usual style...recent unaccustomed work with a shovel. The stereotype...The frustration.

Telepathy(Kore): Esmerelda Jones Age: too late Accepted as a PHD candidate at UC Berkeley or so she thought...reality?: pissed off the wrong bureaucrat. Incarceration on Eynhallow: three years.

Narration(Kore):The others are easily read...by their clothing...their expressions...the words they choose...or don't choose...It's my job to be perceptive to judge quickly.

Narration(Kore): Eynhallow...

Narration(Kore):...must be in the Farallon islands because that's where I was supposed to take my vacation.

Narration(Kore):Grant...well, I've met him before because he recognized my face.

Narration(Kore): Now if only I could remember why I spent last night...drinking like a Visigoth.

Thought(Kore): Where's the yacht?!

Author Notes:

Don’t look now, but…

Episode Recap:

Grant is now confronted with Indiana Jones *cough* excuse me, Esmerelda Jones, who is a ‘lunatic activist’ according to him. It appears they have met before. Esme has gotten out of her old guild and gotten the opportunity to select another one, a privilege not usually afforded Eynhallow inmates. The new prime minister that Grant was whining about earlier signed the transfer papers personally. Kore meanwhile is actually reading people’s minds, but is chalking it up to a. hallucinations or b. her business acumen. In fact, now that she thinks about it, she knows where she is, the Farallon Islands, where she was on a fishing vacation. She does some rationalization over everything, but in the end we all know who is managing all this elaborate setup. Oh yeah. The yacht. Forgot about that.